"Neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude exacept as a punshiment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Ratified on December 6, 1865.

The Thirteenth Amendment offically abolished and continues to prohibit slavery with limited exceptions, such as those who convicted crime, prohibits involuntary servitude.

April 1864 the Senate passed it but the House did not.

Abraham Lincoln took an active role garrenteed passage through congress.

Insisted that it be added to the republican party platform for the upcoming elections.

It was a solution to the slavery issue in great success

House passed the bill in January 1865

Congress had passed the 13th amendment to guarantee the legality and perpetuity of slavery in the slave states in rather then to end it.